Imran Ahmed
Imran Ahmed is the founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).1) He is based in Washington, D.C.
History
Education
Ahmed attended the Manchester Grammar School and University of Cambridge.2)
Career
Ahmed founded the Center for Countering Digital Hate on October 19, 2018, originally registering the company under the name Brixton Endeavours Limited.3) According to his CCHH biography, he “was inspired to start the Center after seeing the rise of antisemitism on the left in the United Kingdom and the murder of his colleague, Jo Cox MP, by a white supremacist, who had been radicalized in part online, during the EU Referendum in 2016.”4)
On November 17, 2020, Ahmed was interviewed about a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg that had occurred earlier that day.5)
On May 16, 2022, The Guardian published an article written by Ahmed titled “Buffalo might never have happened if online hate had been tackled after Christchurch”, referring to the Christchurch mass shooting in March 2019.6)
External links
1)
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About. Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH. Retrieved March 3, 2023, from https://archive.ph/MM035
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Imran Ahmed. LinkedIn. Retrieved March 3, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/imran-ahmed-ccdh/
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CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE LTD overview. Companies House. Retrieved April 10, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200410094741/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11633127/
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Center for Countering Digital Hate [@CCDHate]. (2020, November 17). “NEW ‘This election was the last chance saloon for the social media companies which have failed to deal with misinformation on their platforms.’ Our CEO, @Imi_Ahmed on today’s Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing with Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg.” [Tweet]. Twitter. https://web.archive.org/web/20230304004822/https://twitter.com/CCDHate/status/1328692797457698816
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Ahmed, I. (2022, May 16). Buffalo might never have happened if online hate had been tackled after Christchurch. The Guardian. https://web.archive.org/web/20230304014954/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/16/racist-words-social-media-kill-buffalo-meta-twitter-google-radicalisation